1818 JORNEY through PERSIA ARMENIA & ASIA MINOR to CONSTANTINOPLE antique MORIER

Morier (Sir James Justinian)

A Second Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople

London; 1818

first edition


with 17 engraved plates, most aquatint including 4 hand-coloured and 4 folding, 2 engraved maps, one folding, wood-engraved illustrations,

some foxing and light offsetting, large folding plate with panoramas foxed and browned, also rather creased and slightly frayed at lower edge,


Original half calf, spine tooled in gilt and blind with green roan label, a little rubbed

[Abbey, Travel 358; Atabey 837]

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 Morier (1780-1849) was born and raised in Smyrna. He was secretary to the mission of Sir Harford Jones to Persia in 1808-09, and again to that of Sir Gore Ouseley which resulted in the Anglo-Persian treaty of 1812, as recorded in the first item. Morier also wrote novels set in the East, most notably The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan.
Following Harford Jones's mission Morier was despatched back to London with the text of the Preliminary Treaty, and was accompanied by Mirza Abul Hasan, the first Qajar envoy to Britain.
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Size 9 1/4 by 11 3/4 inches

Text in English
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